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Grey Suit Editions: Catalogue of all Published Videos

Grey Suit Editions was originally a magazine on VHS videotape. This was back in the nineties. Years later, the British Film Institute helped us to digitise all thirteen hours of video material – featuring performance art, poets reading, experimental film … Continue reading

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Edward Field dies at the age of 102

The poet of simply describing it as it is. One of my favourite writers. x WORLD WAR 11 x It was over Target Berlin the flak shot up our plane just as we were dumping bombs on the already smoking … Continue reading

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Three Pessimistic Poems

GROUNDING YOUR STANCE x Thought emerges out of a blur of language. It may be Not quite a thought, or a wrong thought like the picture Which doesn’t match the pieces in your puzzle. You tug at the thought, it … Continue reading

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Self-Portrait in a Drought

x I am a persona, I would say; a caricature by Cruikshank Of myself. Like a comedian, I’ve contrived my role. So I am not aiming for authenticity, more, exaggeration. Braggadocio. Something out of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Made … Continue reading

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Some Days

x Some days I am charged with an idea. Other days, There’s nothing there, that is, the mind’s so filled with self There’s room for little else. I need to walk away, Free the mind of me. Trouble is, at … Continue reading

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Fauve Warfare

x He ran majestically for the bus. However he was beaten to it By an unfortunate Bugatti. Andre Derain was afforded a week in London Charged with painting Westminster in his demented colours. Inappropriate modifiers might be how verse gets … Continue reading

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Three Heat Poems

TROPICAL TOPIC x The fan is the centre of my universe. I ask, Does cold air fall? I am baking from the feet up. Amid giant retorts The God of Heat experiments. x This weather’s great If you’re cold-blooded, Soaking … Continue reading

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Lost Children

A thousand and a thousand more again, These little waves roll in along the shore, And constantly appear and disappear While mothers tear their useless hair. Calling, calling one more time: Each vanishment abruptly noticed With a sick chill, either … Continue reading

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A Dim View

We are witnessing a phenomenon: a process that magnifies space. Whatever enters its zone will enlarge – as did Alice After she ate that very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were marked in currants. However, in this … Continue reading

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GREY SUIT ARTS MENTORING SERVICE

I am currently offering mentoring in Writing (prose and poetry), Art, Time-Based Studies (including film, video and installation), Performance Art and Art History. Contact: open gmail and then send a message via editorial@greysuiteditions.co.uk – This mentoring can be at The … Continue reading

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